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Sir Isaiah Berlin 1909–97, English political scientist, b. Latvia (then in Russia). He was educated at Oxford, where he became a fellow (1932), professor of social and political theory (1957–67), and president of Wolfson College (1966–75). In The Hedgehog and the Fox (1953), Berlin explored Leo Tolstoy's view of irresistible historical forces, and in Historical Inevitability (1954) he attacked both determinist and relativist approaches to history as superficial and fallacious. His other works include Karl Marx (3d ed. 1963), Four Essays on Liberty (1969), Personal Impressions (1980), and the essay collection The Proper Study of Mankind (1997). He was knighted in 1957.
See biographies by J. Gray (1996) and M. Ignatieff (1998).
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